Michelle Obama condemns gun violence in personal speech

During a visit to Harper High School in Chicago, where several students have been shot and killed in the past year, First Lady Michelle Obama recalled the death of Hadiya Pendleton who was shot and killed one week after performing at the President’s inauguration. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Obama said he’s already me the GOP “more than halfway” on deficit reduction. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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Nightly News
February 04, 2015

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>>>first lady
michelle obama
today addressed
gun violence
in her hometown of
chicago
. late today, she visited harper
high school
, known in
chicago
for a sad distinction, over just the past year, 29 current or former students at harper high have been shot, eight of them killed. earlier in an emotional and highly personal speech, the first lady talked about
hadiyapendleton
, the 15-year-old drill team member who performed at the president's second inaugural but was shot and killed back home in
chicago
. the first lady talked about life and opportunity and some cruel similarities.

>>as i visited with the
pendleton
family at
hadiya
's fub funeral i couldn't get over how familiar they felt to me because what i realized was
hadiya
's family was just like my family.
hadiyapendleton
was me, and i was her. but i got to grow up and go to princeton and
harvard law school
, and have a career and a family, and the most blessed life i could ever imagine and
hadiya
, oh, we know that story. just a week after she performed at my husband's inauguration, she went to a park with some friends, and got shot in the back, because some kid thought she was in a gang.
hadiya
's family did everybody right, but she still didn't have a chance, and that story, the story of
hadiya
's
life and death
, we read that story
day after day
, month after month, year after year, in this city and around this country, so i'm not talking about something that's happening in a
war zone
half way around the world. i am talking about what's happening in the city that we call home.